Alfred Schaper

Alfred Schaper (born May 25, 1863 in Braunschweig , † September 6, 1905 in Breslau ) was a German anatomist , embryologist and university professor .

life and work

The son of Hofrat Karl Schaper received his license to practice medicine in 1889 . He continued his training in Königsberg and completed his habilitation in 1894 as a private lecturer in Zurich . He moved to Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1895 , where he received an adjunct professorship in 1899. In 1900 he followed a call to the University of Wroclaw , where he became the first prosector at the anatomical institute. At the same time he was head of the Institute for Developmental History. Schaper died in 1905 at the age of 42. His pioneering scientific achievement is in the field of microscopic-anatomical experimental physics.

Fonts (selection)

• The liver fluke disease of domestic mammals; an etiological and pathological-anatomical examination. Leipzig 1889 (= dissertation from the pathological institute of the University of Munich).
• The morphological and histological development of the teleost animal cerebellum. Leipzig 1894 (= habilitation thesis).
• The earliest differentiation processes in the central nervous system. 1897.
• Experimental studies on amphibian larvae. 1898.
• The nervous elements of the Selachier retina in methylene blue preparations. 1899.
• Contributions to the analysis of animal growth. no year

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck : Schaper, Alfred. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 515 .